Did you announce your engagement on social media before telling your family?

Nope. But he asked for my parents blessing before we left on our trip and had shown the ring to my brother and sister, so they were waiting for a call/text. I just sent a pic of the ring once we had signal. I then had my immediate family help me tell my aunts and uncles. I also called some of my very best friends. Then two days later when we were getting gas in the middle of nowhere I shared to social media. (He had already told all of his family as well)

We didnt announce it on facebook until almost 3 weeks later becuase I wanted to get a few good pictures of us together before posting it. We didn't get any at the actual proposal. My whole family knew ahead of time and so did his but I never would have posted online without all my close family and friends knowing first.

Our family already knew it was going to happen & his plans, but “officially” we did bc we were out of the country & there was a 6mos time difference.

We called parents, siblings, and grandparents and after they all knew we posted it on social media.

Yep, we did! We announced our engagement the same night on Facebook. We didnt bother telling family first....simply because no one cares. I NOW wish I had announced a bit differently, (like, buy a 'Does This Ring Make Me Look Engaged?' mug and take a cute picture or something) but we still wouldnt have told family first.

We decided to wait a week before announcing on social media... used that week to make calls to various relatives/friends who we thought would be hurt if they found out on social media!

Our immediate family knew before we posted it! Granted, he asked my parents for permission and showed them the ring plus he asked my sister for some advice on creative ideas on how to propose so they already knew it was coming. We didn't post on social media till the next day so we could share the moment with just immediate family. All of my extended family lives out of the country so they knew after we posted it.

We waited about a week or so before announcing it on social media. We made sure to call all of our family and closest friends first.

I called my parents, and told my best friends before we posted. We wanted to make sure our nearest and dearest didn’t find out via social media.

We told our immediate family by phone, text, and FaceTime (we were on vacation and Italy so not ideal for telling in person). Once all of our parents and siblings knew and some close friends, we posted to Facebook and Instagram.

We called/FaceTimed parents and siblings. I saw some other family members between proposal and posting on Facebook (Friday engagement, Sunday night post) but most extended family found out on social media or from our parents.

No way, I called my close people first, text a few people then posted on Facebook. Nothing worst than finding out through social media

I planned on waiting until the morning to post something cute but he couldn't wait to change his relationship status!
I barley hung up with my parents and he pusuhing the post button! Which is so cute but i had more peoplemto
call!
so as he was posting I called my sister and texted my best friend. Then slowly called/texted everyone else. I think we finally talked to his mom around 2am we got engaged on NYE so it wasn't crazy late plus it was only 1am at home, lol.

We called his parents.

Two of our best friends were there for it, the rest of our friends found out via facebook.

No. That would be really rude.

We didn't announce it at all on social media. We called/texted all of the people we wanted to know.

Noooo. I would have been in trouble for that lol. Definitely called all the really important people in my life before posting.

I was extremely adament about making sure this didn’t happen - future mil, not so much.... I am a very private person, and I do not have facebook (fiance does), and we both tried to make sure everyone (family) knew before it was facebook/instagram official. We had told almost everyone ourselves - but then his mom decided to go ahead and post it, along with the video of the actual proposal, to facebook. I was livid! Fiance asked her to delete immediately and she did, but I was really upset about it, and it reminded me again why I don’t have social media. Things like that are so private, and I certaintly didn’t want grandparents finding out that way, or peoppe I don’t even know, watching a video that was so private. I think our society defintely needs to take a social media ettiequte class, to learn what is appropriate to share on social media, and what is not!

Etiquette*

We told the people closest to us first